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Re:A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ by mastazi on Sunday September 01, 2019 @08:18PM (#20855838)
One way of knowing this would be by reading studies conducted by the national health organisations of several countries, see my other comment in this thread.
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Re:A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ by shkkmo on Sunday September 01, 2019 @08:49PM (#20855951)
The one study says that current best estimates place vaping at ~20x safer, or a single order of magnitude. The other provides no concrete numbers.

There appears to be a lot of dispute about those numbers are unrealisticlly high and concerns about conflicts of interest. The wikipedia article provides lots of references on those disputes:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_electronic_cigarette...

Specifically, the study itself states "A limitation of this study is the lack of hard evidence for the harms of most products on most of the criteria"

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Re:A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ by rhizome on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:08PM (#20856022)
Specifically, the study itself states "A limitation of this study is the lack of hard evidence for the harms of most products on most of the criteria"

You could apply the same assessment to strawberries, no? Can't estimate the harm caused by something for which we don't have evidence of harm.

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Re:A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ by shkkmo on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:36PM (#20856151)
It is unclear what your point is. Did somebody claim that strawberries are orders of magnitudes safer than cigarettes?

My point is that there are good reasons to view the number presented in that report as very preliminary and unreliable.

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